The Eighth Amendment

  • issue of The Illustrated Police News, May 4, 1878

    Wilkerson v. Utah

    99 U.S. 130 (1879)

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  • Gregg v. Georgia

    562 US 443 (2011)

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  • Daryl Atkins (in white) sits with his attorneys Friday after he was found mentally competent by a Virginia jury. A judge immediately scheduled his execution | Credit: Sangjib Min, AP

    Atkins v. Virginia

    536 U.S. 304 (2002)

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